Word: severance
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...Sever Hall is enveloped by a cocoon of scaffolding and mesh while it undergoes external restoration and internal conversion...
Schwarzenegger, a former steroid user who now denounces the illegal drugs in his physical-fitness crusade, says he vetoed the bill because the language was "unclear" and "most dietary supplements are safe." But after a couple of days of attacks, he announced he would sever ties with the magazines. "I don't want there to be any question or doubt that the people have my full devotion," he said in a statement. It remains to be seen whether the people of California harbor such doubts; his approval ratings have already plummeted to 37%, down from 57% a year...
Working in the wee hours, small bands of radical activists and students had used wire snippers to sever coaxial and optical cables for signal, communication and computer systems at 24 locations in Tokyo, Osaka and five other cities. Using canisters of kerosene attached to crude timing devices, they also blew up or burned down cable connections. Thus, when railway officials tried to start the first trains of the day at 5 a.m., they found to their horror that neither signal lights nor rail switches were operating on 22 commuter lines. As a result, the system in Tokyo and Osaka remained...
...written records of the shredded rooftops and shingles of Memorial Hall and Memorial Church and pictures of fallen trees in Sever Quad confirm Carol’s whirlwind through the Yard...
...former right-hand man, Bishop Aristarchos of Constantini, which wants Eirinaios out. It has also provided a pretext for local Palestinian adherents to try to wrest control of the Orthodox Church from its Greek hierarchy. At an extraordinary crisis meeting in Istanbul last week, world Orthodox leaders voted to sever ties with Eirinaios, paving the way for the election of a new Patriarch in Jerusalem. But Eirinaios, who stormed out of the Istanbul meeting, shows no signs of relinquishing his throne. His intransigence, experts fear, may create a schism in the Jerusalem Patriarchate. "The Patriarchate has never endured a crisis...